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Procurement Curmudgeon Raises The Bar Successfully Combining Parody With An Important Underlying Message

July 25, 2025

Why makes a procurement professional "curmudgeony."

Here we go again Jason Busch and Michael Lamoureux

April 24, 2025

How can you dumb something down, if you don't understand it in the first place?

Given the success of the 2010 Ariba For Dummies book, should there be a similar version for today’s AI?

April 16, 2025

How can the 2010 Ariba For Dummies book enable ProcureTech implementation success in the Agentic AI era?

Is Ariba Still On-Demand? For shareholders and execs the answer is yes but . . . (The Ariba Interviews Revisited)

September 13, 2012

Shortly after taking to the virtual airwaves of the Blog Talk Radio Network in the Spring of 2009, I had both the unique opportunity and pleasure of interviewing Ariba’s Chief Marketing Officer Tim Minahan as well as their CFO Ahmed Rubaie. The shows, which originally aired on April 16th, 2009 (There’s a slow, slow train […]

Busch and Hansen’s Shared Views on Ariba Dummies Book is Bad News for the Much Maligned Vendor

November 19, 2010

It is safe to say that both Jason Busch and I have not always seen eye-to-eye. In fact one might even suggest that our “spirited” exchanges have been more reflective of cantankerous old men (not that either of us is old), trading barbs across an unbridgeable gulf of opposing views. It is not a matter […]

Has the ERP-world finally come down to this . . . An Ariba For Dummies?!

November 16, 2010

“How’s your business’s commerce health? Need some improving? Businesses must tap flexible solutions that enable them to access the resources they need as they need them to collaborate more efficiently and effectively with their trading partners. This little book helps you assess your business commerce health and then introduces a new approach to making things […]